Many professionals, particularly lawyers, reach a point in their career when their current position just doesn't feel quite right. Is it the nature of your current job, the firm you work for, or are you unhappy with the whole profession? Understanding what exactly the problem is will be critical to determining what the next step of your career should be. FindLaw’s Career Self-Assessment section offers free resources on a range of topics that can help you get started. Read more about the high-achiever blues, ask yourself if are you miserable or just adjusting, should you leave an employer before the two-year mark, and learn to estimate your market value.
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Surviving a Bad Performance Review, Part I
Many lawyers and professional legal staff prefer to think of themselves as in business for themselves, merely using a group to provide office space, support services, and occasional camaraderie. But this assumed sense of personal independence undergoes a rude awakening when a senior partner calls you into his or her office.
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Assess Where You Are Going
Take a minute or two to read the exercise below. Place a check next to the statements that apply to you.
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Taking Stock: Evaluating Your Present Position
In our last column, we raised some general issues about the search for career satisfaction in the legal profession and promised to carry on the inquiry with a closer look at the process of evaluating one's present position.
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How long should you take to decide that your current firm is not right for you?
How long should you take to decide that your current firm is not right for you? I am a new attorney and I have been at a law firm for almost 5 months. It's not what I expelected.
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Estimating your market value.
I recently asked for a raise. My boss told me to give him proof that other law firms in the area pay their paralegals more money that I am being paid. How can I obtain this information.
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Self-Assessment - The Value of Not Killing a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird Ruth was having a terrible time going to sleep. She could not decide whether she should stay at the firm. She agonized over it every day at work and constantly discussed it with her husband every night.
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How to Handle an Abusive Supervisor
How should you handle a supervisor who screams and yells?